[Peace-discuss] News-Gazette 1/6/09

[Barbara kessel]

Thank you, Mort. I saw this in the actual paper this morning - an
excellent letter. Barbara Kessel

On 1/6/09, Jan & Durl Kruse <jandurl at comcast.net> wrote:
> Shameful war on Gaza by Israel, U.S.
>
>  Tuesday January 6, 2009
>
>  We should all be ashamed and angered, ashamed of our government for
> providing a brutal colonialist state, Israel, with weapons of mass
> destruction. Weapons of mass destruction need not be nuclear, although such
> lie in wait within that nation.
>
>  The mass destruction is before our eyes, if we will open them, in the
> enclave of Gaza whose population is strangled by the armed might of an
> Israel supported and encouraged by a callous U.S. administration.
>
>  On a front page of The News-Gazette was a photo of a wounded Israeli child.
> Where were the photos of the hundred bloodied Palestinian children? A
> hundred Palestinian eyes for an Israeli eye? Perverse and perverted "Old
> Testament" morality.
>
>  So some in Gaza respond to strangulation by kicking out wildly at their
> oppressor, lobbing ineffective missiles at their oppressor in a rage that
> expresses their weakness, their helplessness, their isolation. And in an
> attack that needed an excuse for what was long planned (reported in the
> Israeli press), a sustained and continuing assault on the people of Gaza
> with U.S-made F16s was launched. Hundreds killed, thousands wounded, a
> university bombed, a mosque too, widespread destruction.
>
>  Against this, a few Israelis killed and wounded, others frightened by those
> missiles launched in frustration and revenge.
>
>  Why all this? Because the Palestinians want justice and an independence
> that Israelis fear. They want respect, want a life free from repression,
> want independence from a Jewish state, want back what was seized from them,
> want to run their own lives.
>
>  What is happening to Gaza is an atrocity in which the U.S. administration,
> a compliant media and an apathetic population is as guilty as its murderous
> client.
>
>  MORTON K. BRUSSEL
>
>  Urbana
>   Find this article at:
>
> http://www.news-gazette.com/news/opinions/letters/2009/01/06/shameful_war_on_gaza_by_israel_us
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